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IdPnSD's avatar

The article says "But in fact academia research and teaching put a low priority on accurate useful conclusions, relative to showing off, and math is very helpful for that purpose." - exactly correct.

Both real numbers and money are false, because both are not objects of nature. Therefore, whatever you create using math or money, must also be false. Note that money is also a real number, and therefore must be false, since real numbers are false. Falsity of economics is obvious everywhere we look - we see wars, poverty, unemployment, pollution, migration etc. These are all happening because of money. Remove money, and create money-less economy (MLE) all these problems will vanish.

Invalidity of math is very subtle. If you know engineering, it will be obvious for you. For example 3+4=5, is the common case in engineering. This is so because all variables in engineering, and even in economics, are bounded by lower and upper values. In this example 5 is the upper bound. No matter what the result of addition is, the output must be clipped to the upper bound 5. This makes all applications non-linear, but math requires linearity, a very false assumption for nature. The issue is more complex with infinity, another false object of math. Take a look at https://theoryofsouls.wordp... for more details. Under MLE even math will change and become more meaningful.

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Christian Kleineidam's avatar

Mathematical logic is a subject that happens to be useful. It tells you whether certain things are true and others are false. Logic doesn't need any numbers.

Statistics is a subject on it's own and a lot of mathematicians want to have nothing to do with it.

I do care that the garbage collector of my android phone runs well. That has something to do with math, but it's not about numbers.

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